the Earthouse

cranborne, Dorset

I was spellbound – I don’t use the word lightly

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In a field in Dorset there is a hill with a door. This is the Earthouse, a 250-seat fire-lit theatre, where audiences sit on wooden benches, under an earth roof, held up by 21 huge oak tree trunks.

Join us in this fabulous quirky venue for regular live storytelling shows. Expect a magical alternative theatre experience – our fairytales for grown-ups are complete with star gazing, the occasional sheep and a lot of fairylights, creating a glorious outdoor theatre vibe.

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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: MAUI TRICKSTER
Mikael Öberg
17 MAY 2025, 7.30PM - SOLD OUT
Step into a world where creation is still in motion—where the Sun Beast scorches the skies, Grandmother Fire blazes, and fish are the size of islands. Where secrets lurk in the underworld, and Great Woman Night watches over it all.
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beow-strip
Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
BEOWULF
Jesper la Cour, Troels Kirk Ejsing
14 June 2025, 5PM
Channelling epic, farce, nightmare, and comic strip by turn, Danish storytellers, Jesper la Cour and Troels Kirk Ejsing bring us their physical, vital, and downright comedic version of Beowulf.  This is a prize performance of an ancient story that’s not to be missed.
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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
THE HAIRY GIRL
Kersti Ståbi
14 June 2025, 8pm
Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who had everything, except for a child. This is the very ordinary beginning to one of the wildest of Scandinavian fairytales... Kersti Ståbi remixes the primal tale of Tatterhood - the Hairy Girl - with the sheer force of Japanese Taiko drumming.
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Ramayana
Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
THE RAMAYANA
Emily Hennessey, music by Sheema Mukherjee
12 July 2025, 7.30pm
Epic comic strip meets ancient Indian myth as storyteller Emily Hennessey and virtuoso sitar player Sheema Mukherjee conjure up the vivid, wild and beguiling world of the Ramayana, shot through with bitter rivalry, wild battles, love, loyalty, and cosmic monkeys.
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Magical Alternative Theatre in Dorset

The Crick Crack Club is the UK’s busiest and boldest programmer of live performance storytelling. We present shows that are inspired by or which reinterpet the stunning content of international fairytale, folktale, myth and epic for contemporary audiences. If you’re a thinker, a seeker, or a dreamer, and you have an imagination that you like to feed, then this is for you.

Working with some of the UK’s finest performance storytellers, we present an annual performance programme of live storytelling, in this unusual Dorset arts venue. Exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful by turn – our live storytelling events bring audiences together, in the magnificent splendour of this historic venue. Shows usually sell out fast, so grab your tickets early.

 Beyond captivating

 OXFORD THEATRE REVIEW

The Crick Crack Club at The Earthouse, The Ancient Technology Centre, Damerham Road, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 5RP  www.earthouse.org.uk

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